Moon-house Technician
A downloadable game for Windows
Moon-house Technician is a classic mainframe parser-based text adventure game, but it also kind of does its own thing. It's about living in a weird little place in the cosmos and falling into routines; a textual storyworld to be explored and savored.
You find yourself in the strange realm of the moon-house, the setting of Howard Pyle's 1895 fairytale The Garden Behind the Moon: A Real Story of the Moon-Angel. The moon-house offers a host of unique opportunities, including--
- making friends with legendary moon-house occupants
- moon window gazing into the cosmic beyond
- hanging out in your bunk
- getting lots of moon-house technician duties accomplished
- collecting exclusive ASCII art trading cards
- and more...
It's a cozy, slice-of-life experience for lovers of nineteenth-century science fiction.
Leave the game console open and find time here and there (a couple of minutes in-between dusting your shelves?) to fully experience the moon-house vibe. While the days sort of blend together here, you must immerse yourself in the strange subroutines and procedural rhetoric to experience it in its ethereal fullness.
Collect all 12 The Garden Behind the Moon playing cards!
Developed by Tyler Wright (Outgrabe) for ParserComp 2024 in the REXX mainframe language and ported in C++ by Dylan Wright.
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Install instructions
Windows version:
Unzip MoonHouseTechnician.zip and open the MoonHouseTechnician.exe to play.
Original REXX version (optional):
The REXX source code of the original version is also included. You must run this file through a REXX language interpreter. We recommend Regina: https://regina-rexx.sourceforge.io/
Simply download Regina, and then drag and drop the Moon-house_Technician.rexx file to Regina.exe.
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